Ministry
of Company Affairs has launched a prestigious e-Governance programme
named MCA21. Under the said MCA21 programme, new e-forms have been notified vide GSR No. 56(E) dated
10.02.2006 and statutory filing, in the office of RoC would
be on the basis of the new e-forms only. To make these new e-forms
legally recognized and authenticate Digital Signature Certificate issued by mtnlTrustLine or TCS is required. These Digital Signature Certificate used for e-forms has the same legal recognition and validity as
handwritten signatures. Detailed MCA21 programme is available at www.mca.gov.in.

A Digital Signature Certificate, like hand written signature,
establishes the identity of the sender filing the documents through
internet which sender can not revoke or deny. A Digital Signature
Certificate is not only a digital equivalent of a hand written signature it adds extra data electronically to any message or a document where
it is used to make it more authentic and more secured. Digital Signature
ensures that no tampering of data is done once the document has
been digitally signed. A DSC is normally valid for 1 or 2 years,
after which renewal is required.